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Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; -- said of waves or any moving object.

Like, becoming, or suitable to, a queen.

The act or process of making or of becoming quick.

A prefix, from the Latin re and ad combined, coming to us through the French and Italian. See Re-, and Ad-.

without any determinate business or object; an excursion or stroll merely for recreation. Coming home, after a short Christians ramble. Swift.

Becoming rancid or sour.

A kitchen grate. [Obs.] He was bid at his first coming to take off the range, and let down the cinders. L'Estrange.

Act or fact of coming or being drawn near or together; establishment or state of cordial relations.

Coming before others, or before the usual time; early. [Obs. or Poetic] Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies. Milton.

at the very moment at which his fame and fortune reached the highest point, predicted the coming reaction. Macaulay. Reaction time (Physiol.), in nerve physiology, the interval between the application of a stimulus to an end organ of sense and the reaction or resulting movement; -- called also physiological time. -- R…

The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital. We give you welcome; not without redound Of use and glory to yourselves ye come. Tennyson.

The entering into a new spiritual life; the act of becoming, or of being made, Christian; that change by which holy affectations and purposes are substituted for the opposite motives in the heart. He saved us by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Chost. Tit. iii. 5.

evice used in connection with hot-air engines, gas-burning furnaces, etc., in which the incoming air or gas is heated by being brought into contact with masses of iron, brick, etc., which have been previously heated by the outgoing, or escaping, hot air or gas.

Becoming, or causing to become, rejuvenated; rejuvenating.

Coming back; returning. [R.] "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley.

he was perpetually soliciting an increase of his disgraceful stipend are mentioned with becoming reprobation. Jeffrey. Set a brand of reprobation on clipped poetry and false coin. Dryden.

That to which one resorts orr on which one depends for supply or support; means of overcoming a difficulty; resort; expedient. Threat'nings mixed with prayers, his last resource. Dryden.

The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition; as, the return of one long absent; the return of health; the return of the seasons, or of an anniversary. At the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee. 1 Kings xx. 22. His personal return was most required and n…

The act of returning, or coming back; return. [Obs.] After his reversion home, [he] was spoiled, also, of all that he brought with him. Foxe.

o action after a suspension. Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts. Shak. Your coming, friends, revives me. Milton.